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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online learning are making it possible for people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several subjects that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Corporations want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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